Illustrator Tools

Adobe Illustrator tool pallet has many numerous tools which are used to draw a stunning graphics. You have noticed that there is a tiny arrow situated in the right bottom of the tool that indicates some more tool are also available under the tool. You can see hidden tool by the help of mouse, click and hold down mouse on the button the hidden tool will appear.

See all the illustrator tools and description

Selection Tool: The selection tool used to select a graphic among many graphic to move anywhere and modify the size of the graphic.

Direct Selection tool: There are two tools "Direct selection" and "Group Selection" there works are different. 

The Direct selection tool used to select individual anchor point and select more anchor point with shift key to modify the shape as you want to do.

The group selection tool is used to make selection on the many object with shift key and anchor point also.

Magic Wand: This tool is used to make selection of the same color in the object.

Lasso Tool: This is a freehand selection tool and used to make selection of the object and anchor point of the graphic as you want to make change by the anchor point.

Pen Tool: We use this tool to draw any type of shape and path, It is also used to edit, delete, and modify the anchor point as made by the pen tool.

Text tool: We used text tool to write text on different ways in the document like horizontal text in the figure, text on the path, vertical text, vertical text in the figure and vertical text on the path.

Line Tool: This tool used to different type of line art to make attractive graphics like straight line, Arc line, spiral line, grid line and polar grid line.

Shapes Tool: It has many shapes tool that helps us to draw different type of shape on the document as the shapes tool are in the tool. 

Paint Tool: This is a free hand tool and used to make any type of path and graphic with the selected color, you can change the color and draw a line art also.

Pencil Tool: This tool is used just like a pencil to draw a figure, character and line art on the document, It can also used to make a line path.

Smooth Tool: This tool is used to modify the path selection. If you have drawn a path by pencil tool and that is not as you want, apply this tool on the path to make smoothness.

Eraser Tool: This tool is used to delete that are where you apply on the figure, picture and line. First select line and drag on  that to delete the path and line as you want.

Rotate Tool: First click on the object and choose the rotate tool then specify the center point and drag anywhere of the object. you can rotate your object at specify degree. Right click on the object-> Transform->choose the rotate then a rotation dialog box will appear on the screen then specify the degree to move as you need.

Reflect Tool: This tool is used to make reflection of the object. Double click on the reflect tool, a dialog box will appear on the screen and specify the angle to make reflection.

Scale Tool: This tool is used to make scaling of figure with a specify values. Select the object and choose the scale tool then click around the object to scaling.

Shear Tool: Select the object, click on the object and shear that.

Reshape Tool: Makes point on the object which you want to modify and give the shape as you want.

Warp Tool: Click on the object and pull anywhere to give different look.

Twirl Tool: To make twirls shape of any object and picture just click on the object, it applied automatically. 

Pucker Tool: Click anywhere on the picture and object to make shrike effect close one corner to another corner.

Bloat Tool: We can spread the object in blobs with the help of this tool.

Scallop Tool: To make scalloped shapes.

Crystallize Tool: Just click on the object and see what effect is appearing.

Wrinkle Tool: This tool is used to make wrinkle effect on the object and picture.

Free Transform Tool: We can transform the object of several ways with the help of  free transform tool

Symbol Sprayer Tool: This tool is used to spray any symbol as you selected form the symbol pellet on the document. Take this tool and select symbol from the symbol pellet and move mouse with this tool on the wanted area to appear symbol.

Symbol Shifter Tool: This tool is used to move symbol  anywhere on the place as you drawn on the document.

Symbol Scruncher Tool: This tool used to pulls all the symbol instances together as you drawn on the document..

Symbol Sizer Tool: This tool is used to increase whole symbol size, take this tool and apply on the symbol to increase size as you need. To decrease the size of the symbol hold down the alt key and click over the symbol.

Symbol spinner Tool: This tool help to rotate the symbol to set on the different angle.

Symbol Stainer Tool: This tool is used to change symbol color, select first solid color fill as you need then apply on the symbol to give color effect on as you selected.

Symbol Screener Tool: This tool is used to make transparent effect on the symbol, select tool and apply on the symbol. It is also used to undo transparent effect, hold alt key and click on the symbol.

Symbol Styler Tool: This tool applies the selected style to the symbol.

Graph Tool: Graph tool has some more tool, all the tool used to draw different type of graph and chart.

Mesh Tool: This tool used to make some more point on the object like mesh shape to give different shape of the object. It is also used to make the grid over the object and fill the color on the selected position.

Gradient Tool: This tool mainly used to fill two and more color in the object and selected area, take this tool and change gradient color as you need and apply on. click on the gradient tool and Click over the object to define area where you want to add color. you can create gradient   Objects -> Create Gradient Mesh->specify the row and columns.

Eyedropper Tool: This tool is used to take color on any place, select this tool and click on that place where you want to take color.

Paint Bucket Tool: This tool helps to fill selected color in the object and selected area.

Measure Tool: This tool measure that difference between two object and which angel they stand.

Blend Tool: This tools makes the specify step between two objects. We can define the steps of blend Objects-> blends-> blend options then specify the steps.

Scissors Tool: This tool is used to cut the part of the object, take this tool and apply on the object by the mouse to cut that part as you need.

Knife tool: We can cut the object into pieces, with the help of this tool.

Hand Tool: This tool is used to move page on the right direction to work properly, hold down Ctrl key with space bar and mouse click and on the page to move..

Page Tool: Adjust the printed area.

Zoom Tool: This tool is used to magnify the size object as you required size To see actual size of the object, double click on the zoom tool.